People slag off calzaghes opposition

Like I said, he was kind of stuck there. iirc, his peers were Ottke, Lukas, and Beyer and he was consistently shut out of unifications. It wasn't exactly the glory days of the SMW division

 

Was the WBO even recognized as a major title when he first got it or only part way through his reign? I forget...

 

Hearns, Leonard, Eubank, Collins, Calzaghe.

Sounds legit.

 

Part way,through his career I believe for a while no one considered it a major title

 

That's right.

He should have moved up to LHW when he couldn't get the Ottke fight in 2003.

 

Exactly there were plenty of fights at LHW around that time

 

:good

 

there is no comparison about the competition between the two fighters... any idiot who is going to argue about who is better is a moron.. I actually just had fun typing that

 

It was a lightly regarded belt.

Hearns and Leonard fought for it in 1989.

Yet a decade later, it still wasn't required to unify a division.


It also became a laughing stock, due to the following links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrin_Morris

http://assets.espn.go.com/boxing/columns/graham/1097210.html


:good

 

True to an extent, but Floyd's getting on now.

Look who Joe fought in his 20's and 30's.

He showed no desire to move up to LHW, even though it was a much stronger division.

 

WBOgus

 

Those links are shocking!